Qualifications

The ideal candidate should demonstrate strong experience in adolescent sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), life skills education, youth engagement, and community-based programming, with the ability to work effectively with adolescents, schools, coaches, health systems, and community structures.

Required Experience and Background

• Bachelor’s degree in Health Sciences, Community Health, Social Sciences, Psychology, Education, or a related field.
• At least 3 years of experience implementing adolescent SRHR, youth empowerment, gender, or community health programmes.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating life skills training and mentorship programmes for adolescents and young people, particularly girls and vulnerable populations.
• Strong understanding of adolescent-friendly health services, gender-based violence (GBV) prevention and response, mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS), and safeguarding principles.
• Experience using sports, youth clubs, schools, or other community platforms to engage adolescents in health promotion and behavior change initiatives is highly desirable.
• Proven ability to create safe, inclusive, and empowering spaces for adolescents to discuss SRHR, mental health, gender equality, and life opportunities.
• Experience working with schools, community leaders, youth groups, county governments, and health facilities to strengthen referral pathways and access to services.
• Strong facilitation, communication, advocacy, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate community outreach activities, mentorship programmes, and adolescent engagement initiatives.
• Experience in programme reporting, documentation of impact stories, and monitoring of programme indicators.
• Ability to work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams and manage relationships with partners and local stakeholders.
• Passion for adolescent empowerment, gender equality, and advancing equitable access to health and life opportunities for young people.

Desired Competencies

• Strong interpersonal and coaching skills.
• High level of integrity, professionalism, and accountability.
• Ability to inspire and motivate adolescents and youth champions.
• Adaptable, innovative, and results-oriented.
• Commitment to safeguarding, inclusion, and rights-based programming.
• ICT proficient

• Promote SRHR service delivery through static facilities and outreach models.
• Promote integration of services in the different services delivery points, for instance, FP/RH into HIV/TB clinic.
• Strengthen inter-facility referral for family planning services, for instance from faith base.
• Support training and mentorship sessions for SRHR Champions.
• Support sports tournaments and bonanzas in Dagoretti Sub County.
• Facilitate peer champion led intergenerational community dialogues on SRHR.
• Facilitate career guidance, life skills and mentorship sessions for adolescent mothers.
• Support linkage of adolescents and young mother support groups to financial institutions and government safety net programmes.
• Facilitate annual sports career guidance, life skills and mentorship sports and engagement days for girls and boys.
• Regularly undertake field activities with Implementing partners and provide technical and mentoring support to ensure timely implementation and quality outcome of the CSE project activities.
• Together with the SRHR Programme Specialist, support execution of the periodic planning, review meetings and workshops.
• Coordinate the development and implementation of a multi-year work plan.
• Support advocacy and communication processes for the project.
• Establish and support quarterly sports stakeholder meetings with sports clubs, local businesses, sports federations and talent academies.
• Liaise with relevant partners, stakeholders and collaborators to facilitate activities at community, sub-county, county and national levels.
• Maintain a good working relationship between Amref, ministry of health, Nairobi City County and other partners/stakeholders.
• Actively participate in the drawing, implementation and supervision of quarterly and annual project implementation plan with other partners/stakeholders.
• Support/document successes, lesson learnt and challenges in implementation.
• Prepare project activity reports as required, including monthly, quarterly and annual reports
• Conducting regular field visits to project beneficiaries in collaboration with key stakeholders to monitor progress.
• Participate in development of case studies and human-interest stories for the project.
• Coordinate SRHR content development for health communication and development.
• Support in day-to-day management of activity budgets including processing field imprests and other financial transactions.
• Ensure timely accounting for the use of project resources by stakeholders and communities in liaison with finance teams.

• Strong interpersonal and coaching skills.
• High level of integrity, professionalism, and accountability.
• Ability to inspire and motivate adolescents and youth champions.
• Adaptable, innovative, and results-oriented.
• Commitment to safeguarding, inclusion, and rights-based programming.
• ICT proficient
• Strong facilitation, communication, advocacy, and stakeholder engagement skills.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate community outreach activities, mentorship programmes, and adolescent engagement initiatives.
• Experience in programme reporting, documentation of impact stories, and monitoring of programme indicators.
• Ability to work collaboratively within multidisciplinary teams and manage relationships with partners and local stakeholders.

• Bachelor’s degree in Health Sciences, Community Health, Social Sciences, Psychology, Education, or a related field.
• At least 3 years of experience implementing adolescent SRHR, youth empowerment, gender, or community health programmes.
• Demonstrated experience facilitating life skills training and mentorship programmes for adolescents and young people, particularly girls and vulnerable populations.
• Strong understanding of adolescent-friendly health services, gender-based violence (GBV) prevention and response, mental health and psychosocial support (MHPSS), and safeguarding principles.
• Experience using sports, youth clubs, schools, or other community platforms to engage adolescents in health promotion and behavior change initiatives is highly desirable.
• Proven ability to create safe, inclusive, and empowering spaces for adolescents to discuss SRHR, mental health, gender equality, and life opportunities.
• Experience working with schools, community leaders, youth groups, county governments, and health facilities to strengthen referral pathways and access to services.